An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.652

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Aṣṭāvakra¹, a ṛṣi. § 11 (Parvas.): I, 2, 449 (viprarṣiḥ).—§ 412 (Aṣṭāvakriya): III, 132, 10599 (Kahodaśanuḥ), †10601, †10603, †10608, †10613, †10614, †10620: Cursed by Kahoda; Çvetaketu informed him who his father was; they both go to the sacrifice of Janaka). 133, (†10623), (†10626), (†10629), (10631), (†10637), (†10648), (10645), (10647), (10648): *A.* defeats Bandin. 134, (†10651), †10657, (†10659), (†10661), (†10663), (10665), (†10667), (†10669), (†10670), †10671, †10672, (†10673), (†10676), (10680), †10681, (†10688): Defeated by *A.*, Bandin was merged into the sea; Kahoda let *A.* bathe in the river Samaṅgā, at which all his limbs were immediately made straight.—§ 731 (Aṣṭāvakra-Dik-s.): XIII, 19, 1390 (Aṣṭāvakrasya saṃvādam Diçayā saha), 1391, 1395, (1406), 1417, (1454), (1469): *A.* asked for Suprabhā and made a journey to the north. 20, (1496), (1498), (1500), (1505), (1508): Here the goddess of the north put him upon a trial. 21, 1513, 1521 (viprarṣe), 1529: *A.* came back to his own hermitage, was wedded to Suprabhā, and continued to dwell in his own hermitage.